Teaching continued…the first 9 weeks anyway. The second part of semester was mostly spent sitting at my desk doing nothing but playing on the computer. There was always something taking place that would cancel classes. None of us foreigners minded not doing anything and still getting paid. But I have to admit, it got old. I’d rather be doing something than just sitting there. Bad part was that 99% percent of the time, the Thai teachers wouldn’t tell us we didn’t or did have to do something. Like when class would be canceled. I’d go sit in the classroom waiting for our students who never came. So after a while, I go into the office to ask what was going on.
“Oh, I’m so sorry. I forgot to tell you class was canceled.”
“Oh ok. Thanks.”
Or another situation was one of the other teachers heard over the weekend we wouldn’t be teaching all week but we weren’t sure because nobody in our department had mentioned this to us previously. Then Monday came. We sat there waiting for anyone to tell us if we had class or not. Time for class came so I decided to ask.
“Are we teaching this week?”
“No, you are not teaching this week.”
“Oh, ok. Thanks”
Why is it they knew a couple weeks in advance of this and failed to inform us? Why is it that I had to ask in order to know?” Just give me the key information. That’s all I ask.
But anyway, that’s behind us.
I could only dream (at least right now) of traveling the world and experiencing so many cultures. I love reading about your experiences. Soak it up for the rest of us here in the US of A :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! It's nice to know people actually read these things! It is sometimes hard to put into words how amazing this opportunity has been. And I will definitely soak it up for sure. Just think about it this way...if you ever want to take a vacation, you always have a place to come visit!
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